Cross Bulletin August 1916

--- Page 1 --- Vol. VII . No. 4 . August , 1916 . " Miscellaneous . " wherever , to note that despite all this can't death , and Hay Measure us that it has been That it became political and died of the disease . We are since , life and vigour . Never in the history of the movement were be sympathisers have declared it to be in the throes of death , and have proposed various restoratives . ' Uthersway , We language movement grows apace , and shows every sign of ARIOUS opinions have been recently put forward re- garding the vitality of the Gaelic League . Some 800 given many reasons for its demise chief among --- Page 2 --- to imitate the rich , even when in their poverty they them- this deplorable degeneration . It is the temptation of the poor and adopted the civilization of their rich masters . Let who the bone of Ireland's grandest customs . ' The Irish were poor Every wind that ever blew , will judge of the change . One thing is certain : if we wish to native tongue and our national customs . selves are the more virtuous and more noble . This has been Multiply them into millions . Into gracious millions , Multiply them , one by one ; And then . O dear Lord ! listen- Where the Tabernacles glisten , O'er the skies , and broke and wept In the Eucharist loved adored Every leaf and sod . maintain a distinct national existence we must bring back our Take all of them . O dearest Lord- Every bird that ever flew , Into gorgeous millions , We offer Thee- Of Glorias , glorious Son ! the enforced poverty of Ireland has been accountable for all In vain , and with the flowers slept , Every fewer that ever grew , MISC BELAINED . To those praises . Holiest One ! Laudamus Te . Deus Eucharistice . Like an angel's sword , Dear Lord ! An ancient Celtic Hymn. Thu Father's well-beloved , Into golden millions - before Thy throne to sing : Every cloud that ever swept We offer . Thee- y wave that ever moved , Adoramus . " Te. Benedicimus . Te. Every angel staying . Every pure heart praying , Good God ! . heart that ever loved Our King ! We offer . Thee- lightning flashing . very thunder rolling . church-bell tolling , river dashing , Note . - The above translation of an ancient Irish hymn has been sent Every Every . every . Every amen . Every readers . Every . There , by one of our ? Note . The --- Page 3 --- still a face that most women would turn to look at a second things , after the martyrdom of the old penal days , were thank- marred by a slight cast , which was especially noticeable when eyes brown , with a whimsical expression , but they were rather responsibility was still withheld from them . And they , poor to breathe again after centuries of inhuman oppression-just but the Catholics had little freedom and passed their lives with age . He had a clear-cut face , not exactly good-looking , but ful to be left even life itself . The Church was just beginning was not large . most of it had been wrested from his ancestors time . The mouth was weak , the nose the best feature , the in the past , but he had enough to live on , with a ramshackle were just tolerated no more , and any position of trust or extreme rigour of the penal laws had somewhat spent itself , their owner was in any way excited or agitated . His estate a sword of Damocles still suspended over their heads . They grass by Sheila's side . He was attired in the picturesque place . Anthony , and the ladies there , they say , are very bean- through years of persecution . " Why when I have to go I think it's the sooner the better ! quietly they had lived . seeing little of the outer world . The beginning to lift her head after lying prostrate and bleeding They may try if they like-though I doubt if Anthony pleasures and riches of this world . locally - was tall and slight , and about twenty-three years of riding garb of the day , and in the girl's eyes at least he was He was a Catholic , but not a very staunch one , and often lamented that his religion deterred him from much of the Such then was Anthony O'Neil , as he flung himself on the Oh ! sure I know you must : but " - softly , wishfully - the county in his stables . very good to look upon . old house , and he could boast of some of the best horsetlesh in suddenly from the book she was reading . tiful . I doubt not but they will surely try to make you forget Mr uncle is very anxious to see me ; he gets old and feel you won't unite forget the country mouse , Anthony ? ' O'Neil will be of much importance in Dublin city - but Sheila , your little country maid . ' her face . " I never heard you ! ' am his nearest of kin . So I must go , Sheila mine ! ' ' Oh ... yes I know all you would say . But Dublin is a fine ooking down at her with a smile . Look and remember . I'm off by the Dublin coach to-morrow . " Oh I Anthony ! " she explained , the lovely colour flooding ' O. Anthony ! ' so soon ! ' A footstep on the grass beside her caused Sheila to look up ny heart is yours-surely , my dearest , you know that ! ' lands in his and raising them to his lips , ' it's all settled , and Anthony O'Neil - " the young squire , " as he was called " Dav-dreaming , as usual . Sheila ? " asked the newcomer , ' Well , Sheila a stir , ' he said softly , taking both the girl's " Dav-dreaming , as usual , Sheila ? " ask Forget you , Sheila ! Why lands in his and raising them to his lips , taking both the girl's Well , Sheila a stir , " he said softly , try . --- Page 4 --- shall ever hear a word of love from me , and I will come back to you soon and as fast as I can . I swear it by this token ! " was pinched and drawn ; the lovely eyes were sad and wistful . you have enshrined the tress of my hair which I gave you on that day when we promised to be true to one another-you and had a strained look , as if they were constantly on the watch Remember ! and listen to me-when I am dead I will send you By degrees he quietly her , and in the shelter of his arms her He sprang back against , shivering with the cold horror of Be true to me and I will be true to you ! No other woman changed indeed . The pretty colour had left her face , which sickening for any disorder ! ' obs lessened in violence , but she still implored him continually passionate fit of weeping , and clung to him with all her the cross . this ring ! ' Ah ! me ! for men's vows ! ' Write them on the shifting remember ? O. Anthony . Look and Remember . Look and sands or the running brook-but not on a woman's heart ! Look at this ring that you had made for me , and in which strength . Sheila ! " he cried , and caught her to his heart . " my She raised her hand presently and pointed to a ring upon it . But she only held him the tighter and cried over and over dearest , O , talk not so ! Nothing can ever come between us ! not to leave her . I sword near you , and you were dead-and oh ! the blood-the never see you again if you go from me now ! " me . But when I lose you . Anthony . ' O , what will I do then ? Again I looked on fair Sheila O'Halloran-but she was Sheila ! Sheila ! what is it ? Dear heart , what is troubling And so she went on , till he was well high desperate trying to O. I am well enough - ' His not my health that is troubling her words . for some long-expected sight , and she had a habit of lifting her would speak , and suddenly , to his consternation , broke into a you have such strange fancies . Heaven grant you are not comfort her . She hesitated a moment and lifted her eyes to his as if she gain : " Don't leave me , Anthony ! O , don't leave me ! I'll ve shall never meet again . ' I know it ! I know it ! ' And last And he raised the hand with the ring to his lips . blood ! " Tis then I will be sick in soul and body ! ' you ? ' O. Anthony . I have a presentiment that if we want now a more sensible . Why . I'll only be away a few weeks . he ring ! " I murmured to myself in my dream Are you well , dearest , that Tis then I will be sick in soul and body ! " Sheila ! Sheila ! how can you be so foolish ? I thought ght I saw you in a dream . ' You were lying on the grass and And so she went on , till he was well high despite you have such strange fancies . and I will write by every mail . and I will write by every mail . Are you well , dearest , that we shall never meet again . resentiment that if we part now --- Page 5 --- very time he came to see her and spoke of a " decline , " and the mornings . But he knew that she was beyond his aid now . Meanwhile he was going downhill steadily . ' It was the age of kenny , and Sheila , more restless than usual , was watching for that there had been long intervals between his letters . She from whence she could see down the road and watch for the recommended an infusion of Irish mass to be taken fasting in every day a little more languid . a little thinner , a little paler . nothing from the little cottage that was once his second home . to bed at all before morning , but slept where he fell-probably his return from her seat in the porch . Old Katty was beside it was from Anthony , and she retraced her steps and reached past now had had to be almost lifted from her bed to the chair . her when they described him in the distance , and the next known what it was to go to bed sober : in fact , he rarely went return of Pat . It was understood that if he had the letter for minute the housekeeper was doubling her own eyes , for it they watched the girl as she walked swiftly over the grass . her he was to wave his stick and she would know . O , how she Pat on seeing her had started to run , and so she met him had a proud spirit , and so for months now he had heard from him . Yes : it was in the dear , remembered handwriting : spected she would insist on getting up and sitting in the porch The old apothecary from Kilkenny shook his head over her ratched every object that came along that dusty country road . when all the world looked fair . Pat had left early for Kil- hard drinking , and Anthony for a long time past had not But still watching , still hoping , still expecting . Every mom- eemed to her that he was waving his stick about . No matter how weak she felt on the days when the nail was the porch , with her uncle and Katty watching her . until at last she would see the boy coming nearer and " nearer light of hope and love in her eyes . ing she would say : " Perhaps he will write to-day , " and at last ! " and to Kattv's amazement she sprang from her seat and only a few yards from the gate . She literally tore the letter ter uncle's side breathless indeed , but transformed with the started almost to run down the road to meet him . Mercy , protect her ! ' Kattv's cries brought the priest to her side and together It was little short of a miracle to see her-she who for months ing it open she read it standing there on the grass in front of O , uncle , from Anthony-at last ! " she gasped , and tear- had written several times . but with all her gentleness the girl uly with its blazing heat , and Sheila dropped and dropped- night , " A letter will surely come to-morrow ! " under the table or on a sofa in some club or coffee-house . He was gambling deeply too , and also spending money on race - Never , until one day in early September - a golden day . but , alas ! the stick was never waved . norses and actresses . ' O. Kathy ! look ! ' he has my letter-my letter at ' Miss Sheila ! Miss Sheila !-come back ! O , Mother of The months went their war-June with its wealth of roses , 1907 www ww --- Page 6 --- tables . Several of the gamblers had collapsed from their heavy room . Some of the more moderate ones were rising from the there was the tress of that once loved hair , and there , looking of that day , only one course was possible . An hour later , Tis from home , sir . The man has ridden hard , and had insolent laugh , " you might tell us the name of the fair came hard to recognise in that dissipated face , with bloodshot eyes like a flash the long-forgotten words of Sheila smoke his dulled the sideboards , but there was wine still in many a glass on the of one of the card-rooms in Italy's famous club . ' The candles through the heavy broaded curtains which draped the windows tables to start homewards , but a group of four seated together were still playing steadily and earnestly , evidently for highly potations and law in a drunken slumber here and there in the stakes . One of these was Anthony O'Neil , although it was up at him , mocking and calling over and over again , were the over the tables and on the carpet-empty wine decanters graced A burst of noisy laughter recalled him to his surroundings . senses : " When I am dead I will send you this ring . ' who calls you to attend her at so early a tryst this morning ! usual on such occasions , they met in the Phoenix Park and attended by their seconds and with all the ceremonious routine " By my faith , O'Neil ! " cried a young blood , with an hands . He tore it open so impatiently that the little object it orders that it was to be delivered into your own hands at once . ' O'Neil's answer was to lift his wine-class and fine the con- sealed packet . " but this has just arrived by special messenger . He stopped and picked it up and suddenly stood rigid , It was five o'clock in the morning , and daylight was showing that he is not fit for the society of gentlemen . ' words : " Look and Remember-Look and Remember ! " and contained fell on the floor and rolled to his feet . wine and had been losing heavily . and shaky hands the strong , slim young squire of a little over were burnt low in their numerous sockets - cards were scattered Young Lord Caryll spoke again . O'Neil turned on him furiously . ents full in the young lord's face . According to the custom a year ago . in ominously quiet tones . and I have the honour to tell him " LOOK and remembered . obered in a moment as he gazed at the ring in his hand- I think Mr. O'Neil targets to whom he speaks . " he said . penetrated through the fumes of the wine and partially sobered O'Neil sprang to his feet with an oath . He was flushed with The room door opened suddenly and his man-servant entered ' What the devil do you mean coming here at this hour ? " he cried furiously , and snatched the packet from the man's " I beg , pardon , sir . " he said , handing his master a little The other three rose to their feet at once : the insult had in haste . ' Curse you ! ' he cried . " Curse you all ! I wish to God them . that I had never seen one of you ! " Curse you ! " he cried . " Curs --- Page 7 --- the winding-sheet , the feet at one end and the head in the angular in shape , about four metres in length , and a metre bown out of the rock . Joseph purchased the winding-sheet , of my observations before the readers of THE Cross . This gum-resinous exudation of the so-called alone of India a tree quite distinct from that which supplies the brownish body of Jesus was covered with this mixture and then laid on have imprinted on it the figure of Our Redeemer , and in the pared for burial probably in the forecast of the monument used in the last rites of sculpture among the Jews . " The sacred it was edged with a band of blue ribbon to prevent unravelling . and forty centimetres in breadth . In the seventeenth century photographs can be distinctly seen the marks of the wounds masses familiar to our chemists , which are the resinous exuda- anterior and the other of the posterior surface . These images body by means of other enveloping pieces of linen . " The some stains produced by fire and water , the result of a con- result is that two images are imprinted on the linen , one of the In addition , to the marks of the sacred body are to be found ions of certain members of the natural order Liliacice in Argration in the cathedral of Turin in 1553 . Its authenticity and Palestine , famous for its exquisite perfume . Myrrh is of thorns . The sheet is formed of the finest linen . is rect- Socotra and Barbadoes . The Latin equivalent refers to the John the Baptist at Turin . The sacred blood and the spices of a loss and myrrh. specially prepared for the process of embalment . The Hebrew word translated by a loss refers to are neither prints , nor paintings . nor stairs , but something was wrapped in the sepulchre . I venture to lay a summary middle : the free end was then turned down over the head to the indistinct impressions of a human body ; but when the and Nicodemus brought a hundred pounds weight of a mixture the feet . and the sheet was kept in intimate contact with the celebrated relic is preserved in the cathedral church of St. much more wonderful photographic negatives . produced by the lace , the nails , the scourges , and the crown recent photographs of the winding-sheet in which Jesus When the images are examined on the linen one sees simply is guaranteed by Scrimture history , tradition , miracles , and When the body was taken down from the cross it was pre- the authority of sovereign Pontiffs . Redeemer . also a gum-resin , and in the form of powder both products were By an Irish Doctor . AVING had the privilege of studying a number of The Winding-Sheet of Our 100 108 --- Page 8 --- left slightly so at the upper third . The face has an expression powdered gum-resinous exudations . The area will ferment . of sorrow without anger , and bears traces of agony but also of sombre stain , probably corresponding to a wound made by a thorn . The blood which flowed from this wound met success - mustache joins the beard in turning the corner of the month . centimetres in length : other stairs descend from it , having produce carbonate of ammonia , and resulting ammoniacal has a pronounced swelling in the middle and on the left side which photography has demonstrated to be negatives . The fuse sweat . The watery part of which will soon evaporate . angle of the right eye to the nostril . The right side of the the excess continuing to flow formed a terminal drop just left and from below upwards would tear through the pericar- the disciples had not time to wash the body . as is proved by urea was not removed in the process of embalament , because produced by an action of organic origin between the naked behind than in front . The right eve is completely shut , and the right breast is a lenticular stain , a little more than four against the eyebrow . and became thinned out immediately stains : indeed , so hurried were the preparations for sepulture body and the prepared piece of linen . ' Anyone who dies after against the cheek . The right cheek is much swollen , and the blood plainly visible . This drop takes its origin from a they correspond to a crown of thorns , and are more numerous the presence of the numerous and widely-distributed blood- long-continued torture will have his body covered with a nra- disseminated picture of the holy face of Jesus , copied from a forehead , and formed within them two little horizontal stairs : If after death this body be covered with linen imbited in aquiline , is thin between the eyes and above the nostrils , and leaving the skin damp and coated with a deposit rich in area . face on the linen at its points of contact chemical impressions . These details can be fairly well distinguished in the widely- minuteness and precision on the plate . These negatives are photograph of the shroud by the celebrated Carmelite nun of while the body was upright . The lace passing from right to earliest possible moment . that three pious women returned to complete them at the upon the forehead are brown marks resembling bloodstains ; the left is partly open . ' The nose is long and somewhat above it . A slight furrow extends down from the internal We will now study the anterior surface image , which appears images are photographed the details appear with extraordinary The hair is in great disorder . and among its meshes and as a positive on the photographic plate . Irie cross . extending to the cheek . Above the left eyebrow is a drop of vapours : these vapours will oxidise the gum-resins , and pro- the appearance of a discharge of blood , which must have flowed which it slightly covers the angle : the left side is applied Lisieux . " The thorax seems very strongly developed . Unde the two wrinkles which are so often found across the peace of death . The beard is short and cut squarely . 110 . distempt that the story seems very straight developed . Winner --- Page 9 --- of a number of twisted and knotted cords , and cut the flesh to ons at their extremities . On the lower part of the back as the shape of a dumb-bell , with the upper part bloodv and to the circle of reeds that is still preserved in Notre Dame at entimetres in length , slightly swollen at each extremity ; the broken incurred branches of the Zizyphus Spina Christi . fixed such an extent as to easily produce death . ' The " Laerum talis eighteen of these marks are very distinct . On the upper part restiges of irregular wounds of the same nature . the lower pale : the middle trace is irregular and difficult to little clear region . Each has the form of a little baton , three calves are found a great number of singular marks regularly by the number and severity of the wounds produced by the Our Saviour's body , as we will see from their minute exam- had three kinds at their disposal . " The " Hagellum " consisted colour is deeper at each end than in the middle : blood has come Paris , and must have been driven down on the head by strokes or twisted in the form of a hook . descend . On the upper part of the breast are to be seen according as the skin has been hollowed out to various depths , essellatum " was made of things to which little bones were of a bludgeon . The celebrated painting by Guido Reni. where ination , is the " Magnum , " consisting of several fine chains laced side by side below the right shoulder-blade and in a arts they are directed horizontally , and on the calves they We will now study these marks in detail . Two of them are attached to a short handle , with dumb-bell shaped metal but- on the right calf are three very distinct marks : the uppermost he wounds made by the scourges . The Roman executioners sheet my readers will probably modify some of their previous rom each end , and in the middle there is only a sorosity , such is would be produced by an abrasion . I have found several ideas concerning the site of the lace wound , the appearance the forehead of Christ is surrounded by a supple plant armed tinctly imprinted . attached at regular intervals , and was also a deadly instru- similar marks scattered over the body , and more or less dis- to kill Him . The weapon capable of making these wounds on with a few innocent spines , evidently gives but a very faint But we know that Pilate's idea was to chastise Jesus and not idea of the terrible reality . In examining the blood-stains on the head I was impressed The distinctness of each brown extremity varies very much , be in perfect proportion . and there is much variation also in their form . For example , On the back , on the fleshy parts , on the thighs , and on the be turned outwards . Artists have declared the whole body to arranged and almost of the same form ; they are the traces of are two series which ascend from left to right , on the fleshy define : the lowest is cut out , as if the metal button was split Even from this brief and imperfect study of the holy winding ment . crown of thorns . It consisted of a sort of tiara made of the or twisted in the form of a hook . 112 --- Page 10 --- days is merely a polite way of implying that that person can the conclusion that devotion and objection were allied still which is true . for Fluff was nearly drowned in the bath , and she grew religious . By what mental process she arrived at for her family were only too glad to dispense with her motherly remains a mystery : but the union reacted dismay on herself , he rejected air always donned like a mourning garment when of course gay and incousequent like the rest of his family . but it went no further . His sisters prided in him , and looked him with all the virtues , and he really had no vices . He was services while it lasted , which was usually only a few days , Sophy was crazy about that dog , " continued Betty , ignoring jected Eva. between whom and Sophie a social rivalry existed . As there was no answer possible to this profound statement , nag and scratch on slight or imaginary provocation , " inter- they all looked in triumph at their mother , who was wearing An historical woman is always telling people about her partnership in the firm to which he had been apprentices . and with which he was still working . His mother endowed and was really the prickings of a disquieted conscience , though because she said she wanted to buy a new hat ; and Jennie to speak on Devotion to the Sacred Heart that morning . forward to his making their name soon shine with a much-to- The indaritableness of this speech drew a slangy remon- Carrie refused to accompany her mother to the church , not disappointment him , as I should if I went to St. Joseph's . " whether she would come and hear a certain preacher who was Dick . " Madame Dubois also told her that she was of an Dick put it down to " liver . ' perament , which other people rightly call her outbursts of She told Sophy Farrell that she got a great shock once , extremely artistic temperament . ' e-envied brightness in the social firmament . go , mother , as I have arranged with Maule Farrell to see Eva went on : " And after all , what can that priest say that envv. spite , and general bad temper . ' " To say that a person has an artistic temperament now-a- Madame Dubois , and get our fortunes told . ' She's mar- sensitiveness , and boasting of what she calls her artistic tem- periodically on their account is cruel . " At pocketing half-crowns . Eh , what ? " jeered Dick . I don't already know ? " Dick was a promising young solicitor who was hoping for a with her usual personality . " none of us are likely to die ! ' strance from Dick , but its shrewdness was applauded by both Eva's speech was in reply to her mother's query as to Carrie and Jennie . under the cloud of a maternal " attack , ' quoth Eva one particular morning as they sat at break ! vellous ! ' Yes , indeed . " agreed Bettv. the youngest : " and I cannot ' George is coming to take me for a motor'drive , so I We must have some out ragging people Besides , " she added , amusement whilst we're young . " Besides , " she add amusement whilst we're young . " forward to his making their name soon " shine w quoth Eva one particular morning as t musement whilst we're young . " Besides , " she added , --- Page 11 --- rimposes past blue and curving streams not less beautiful he country , past gloomy fir woods their floor might with urse , Eva stepped into the motor and was whirled away into religion of progress , and he should like his wife to profess it- Dressed with no appearance of having to consult a scanty But Eva and her cavalier saw none of these . They were sible children , O that was a horse of another colour ! and melodious to sight and sound than the springing lark and exist her , and it would hardly be fair to induce her to go to is church-the interior of which he had not seen himself for Hello , here's George ! " cried Eva as a motor whirred up eligion , to which he had an inherited antipathy-unreason- for he represented money in abundance . e was a man indifferent to all religion , unless the Catholic ' arrive , easily , " and Jack Rogan will lend me the rest . ' the cross . ut hang it all . Eva was such a dashing girl , no one could ring the bell . April winds or thrown like a torn veil across the smiling blue . ag , inactive , but existent . Protestantism , he said , was the and to make plans for attending another . ut for a joy ride , though , happily , they killed nothing . " They ears , unless as best man at a wedding-but as for any pos- George Winder was a Protestant . More correctly speaking , the gate and a young man alighting walked through the the hat . is song ; and under an azure sky with snowy clouds banked by Who's going to pay for it ? " asked Mrs. Donnelly , help- intervening yards of turf and was admitted before he could I won a trifle at the whilst drive last night . " returned paid on their accounts . ' managed , however , to discuss learnedly their last bridge part : Mrs. Donnelly cheered up wonderfully at his appearance , refused on the grounds that she should help Carrie to choose lessly . " We'll get no more anywhere until something is all day long . like a naughty child . the mill . Preparations for Eva's marriage went on merrily . Mrs. Donnelly insisted that he was ill and rang up the office expense was spared , and Eva said that George was princely . Mrs. Donnelly promptly annexed the miller's quarter's cheque the day he received it , but he , to his family's surprise obstinate , and sulked in the drawing-room , in carpet slippers , ' Nobody can see them now . ' " Let's try to coax him , " said Betty , who was good-natured . had chosen another room- ' The drawing-room is arctic , so we'll have a fire there , and How awkward ! " explained Mrs. Donnelly . o ; then she tried to get her husband to bed , but he was ' But the one where all my presents are ! " cried Eva . presents are ! " cried Eva . ' But the one where all my cried Eva . --- Page 12 --- near future , obliged , so to speak , to eat their bread without refuses her that request , though otherwise he is generous . kinder and gentle than she had ever been , even though her ties they have lately retired to a humbler neighbourhood . Eva accepts it weekly as a just punishment , but with a firm butter , or else work for the butter . Their creditors , too , were are being brought up in her faith . Her husband consistently life is a perpetual bearing of the cross , for none of her children Thus the girls were faced with the probability of being , in the growing importance , so , realising the proceeds of all superflui- hilarity amongst the younger members , so that it was thought kered heart of worldliness was laid bare . But she grows where Mrs. Donnelly takes in what she terms " paying and washing bandages as a hospital probationer than she used woman . And if at any time she tried to drug her mind with her own conscience beside Dick's death-bed , she was a changed willfully endangered it . To what had she been true ? To the much that she would ask that might lift this intolerable weight . necessary he should resign . He did - on a small pension . trust that God will hear her unceasing prayer for them she as the stage of a concert hall-his performances creating much From the moment when Eva stood at the judgment bar of THE DONNELLY . that was the price to be paid for a priceless gift ? She groaned again " Not true . " for in her soul she knew that she had casts " all her care upon Him . ' guests . " Carrie and Tennie help her to entertain and " do " the passing show , realities obtruded themselves and the can- to be when consulting fortune-tellers in unpaid-for frocks and But where was the Dick that had justed so often ? ' Where ! whither gone , O God ! ills , hoarding his secret impenetrably . And there was so king the office for places not resembling it in the least , such still small voice " of conscience , or to the lessons of her early for them , and Betty is much happier cleaning mackintoshes After Dick's death Mr. Donnelly got into the habit of mis- of her life . " Not true . She had looked on folly , and made it the standard and arbiter And Dick's body was lying there , heedless as the immutable years ? Edit links and the striking bandages as a mostaperdownous inack messages using the office for places not resembling it in the least , such --- Page 13 --- which had configingly bound themselves across the Way of a little of the secret of her success was probed in generalisation no idea that they would ever appear as a book , this collection absolute devotion of sincerity which will secure for them , Wordsworth himself , ever drew so close to the heart of nature literary genius and the innate simplicity , which is one of the as did the search of Assisi who was close to the heart of God . ' retrospect . " To read the book , " says one appreciative critic , continuity of good and the kindness and justice which under- volume appeared to gladden the hearts of the comparative few she used to gaze on the white gate , whose topmost bar was less " died in her thirty-third year . From her bed of death her left hand - for her right one was disabled - and at first with is to experience a strange exaltation like that which comes readers for whom the parish wrappings of " best sellers ' lies creation , that her prose is a sort of pleasing prayer in have no attraction . The volume does not make for depression highest types of the genius of expression , travel abreast some- little book , and on the sixth of August , roof . " Michael Fair- Beyond there would be no need to disclose the tender branches if there could be such as a really unspiritual one . Not does he come into sympathy with nature . Not Shelley , not dabbler in literature will be apt to think he could have done ing pages of " Michael Fairless , " and one recollects that by Francis Thompson , in his essay on ' Nature's Immorta- beauty . ' ... . ' In so far as man himself lives in that life hers was the pretty thought that in passing to the Great Departure . Early in 1902 a somewhat slim green-covered lity . " " All earthly beauty . " he says , " is but heavenly of papers have a curious spiritual quality combined with an and again on reading many of the seemingly simple but haunt- who realised that here was something far and away above the embraced by the clinging tendrils of a wayward woodbine , and o those who watch the dawn on some high mountain peak . ' The authors was a nature lover , a spiritual nature lover , " The Road-member . ' in the reader , for the writer had such an acute sense of the imes to the casual detriment of the thoughtless , who explain : How very easy to write like that ! " the same . " A thought something like this recurs to one time present-day unabashed and unashamed laying-bare of paltry Written by an invalid too weak even to sit up in bed , with Birrell says : " A fine passage ... . " No one but a At the gateway then I cry you farewell , " concludes the UOTING a paragraph from Burke , Mr. Augustine souls . souls " " 120 --- Page 14 --- he aielder of the sledge hammer - in the opposite side of the Of all the poor dumb pilgrims of the road the bullocks are themselves , by their overshadowing of the grim and the deaf ears to sights and sounds from which others by these very leep in pasture , massed at the gate , and stared mild-eyed and animal psychology the sheep that yesterday followed the on the fragment pine needles in the aloneness of a great forest ; crook has given place to the sturdiness of a driving stick . of the sunset is focussed upon them . making us discover . ives by the gate regards my heap of stones as subject to his mundane things , in such a way that all the glow , as it were , bird : and may it not be that He opens closed eyes and unstops in their eyes a horror of great fear . The sleek cattle , knee physical discomfort , and with a knowledge of the coming of clang of my strokes : and when I pause he cocks his tail , with of the work , and was written under conditions of the greatest summer song until it shrills above and through the metallic sweetness of the sun-blessed pines . lapped in the manifold mender " - the seeing of nature with nature's eye , the compr Among the highest , if not the greatest , of literary gifts we should a painless passing be vouchsafed me , to make my bed great truth tenderly said that God builds the nest for the blind villy nilly , beauties and graces which had hitherto escaped our The passing of groves of beasts to the slaughter-house of the important details which eventually constitute a picture by shepherd as a guide to-day go unwillingly before him . ' for the commonplace . She writes thus of a blind woman : " It is a over and student of nature could write this : " The robin that THE ROADMEMBER . " from the Cities of Peace . " And in another place she says : shirking , big brother ? " and I fall , ashamed , to my mending unwillingly , with lowered head and further sideways motion , neighbouring town is made the subject of much comment on scale to a writer like " Michael Fairless , " who works on the of roads " ? " And that , as it were , is the note of " The Road- more prosaic vision . After all , the realist in literature is but special inspection . He sits atop and practises the trill of his silence ; my ear attuned to the wind of Heaven with its call death . " I , a shy lover of the fields and woods , longed always . re so often look for it and find it not . Who but a genuine o lie once again as I had Iain many a time , bathed in the bitter revision of the genital playfulness even at the back of trifles : he most terrible to see . ' They are not patient , but go most Shadow " marks the more particularly autobiographical part with inquiring below at the retreating drove ; but these passed senses are debarred ? " The first part of the book concludes must , reckon the artistry which depicts for us the simple . the without answer on to the Unknown , and for them it spent numerous twinkle in his round eye which means . What I o even these who read the last two pages of a book first , but with a roadmender's farewell : " I cry you God-speed to the next milestone - and beyond . ' The portion of the book beginning with " Out of the death . 12m . --- Page 15 --- simulate for any sustained period . Doctor Johnson had a great that here is something which he would not willingly have fixion , and the memory of a child's upturned face . Outwardly he was the same save that he changed the tunes of his organ . a curse ; and the child was trotting dismay , when it skipped . ' It is not a little thing , this possession of " the pected request . " He shook the little chap off with a blow and organ-grinder named Gaudine a hard drinker , a hard dren hold dear , and stood patiently playing them in child- grinding , taking with him two friends a pain which fell contempt for authors who had written more that they had read . an author especially can one appreciate it . For even the suddenly upon him to rack and rend with an agony of cruci- as given throughout the volume , correspondent with her expressed material , and worship truth in the beauty of holiness , " but in sincerity is the one thing which a writer cannot successfully the seeming commonplaces . We are given a story of an old books is less plain than scent and song and the wind in the crowded alloys , where pennies are not as plentiful as elsewhere , but best guide of all is the writer for whom " the language of which inflicted terrible internal injuries on him . ' They doing good-hazy as these notions may be now and again , and Two days later Gaudine fell under a passing day out of long-hearted savings , for the idea and feels which chil- one other than a soul attuned to the true note of earthy insig- difference and the wise motive at the back of all things writing mite of the gutter with an unintelligible but persistently re- He saw the face of a little child and looked on God . ' belief : " For me the clue to the next world lies in the wisdom trees " when the artificial mysticism is so noticeably absent , as philosophic formula of those who set the spiritual above the Lend it , and you will be lucky if you get back your convi-as in the case of " Michael Fairless . " And how well her views . I did mine-after an interval of two years with , as somebody suddenly turned , ran , back , and held up a dirty face for a kiss . dead now many a year , and thus would I write his epitaph : a simple war , and still leave the reader under the impression But to the few is given the gift to write of simple things in derful , passing the love of women . " One cannot imagine any- thus , for it is only the same insight which ensures the true and he rarely , if ever , swore ... . He has been patched him up in the hospital , and he went back to his organ- put it , " no signs of disuse in the meantime " : borrow it , and " The Roadmender " is neither a book to borrow nor to lend . good reason that she had the vision which penetrated through the chances are that you'll not rest satisfied till you have a copy crawlers among the race of scribes have their own notions of of your own . the cross . perspective . Very pleasant art thou O' Brother Death : thy love is won- of earth rather than in the learning of men . ' swearer , and a hard liver . Once there came to cling to him a She was near to the heart of created things . possibly for the Tutatrad Tzitti . faith rather than in the learning of men . ' --- Page 16 --- has got four new subscribers for " The Cross " since she wrote last . That is can find time . Although I am delighted to hear from my children regularly , Tracy , and another newcomer . Patrick Henry , informs me he has had the the cross . patience , reminding them that my space is too limited to allow of my noticing Joyce asks me to tell both , and also Chrissie Burke , that she wishes them Frances , a fine , but should prefer to keep both . Suppose we " compromise the enquires why Chrissie Higgins does not write lately , as Lilian and Proinsias of sarcasm , tempered , however , with honest appreciation of the work " The do . Perhaps she will when she reads this enquiry . ' Mary Rennie's letter is a further batch of recruits , viz. , Constance Maley , Lena Jolley , Bertha month . Marie Antoinette Dunne , introduces six members - Max Corrigan . May I would wish to quote if space permitted , but alas ! I am restricted . May other way about , and that I might be in danger of spoiling from her if Raghnall writes to substitute Frances O'Connell for one of her nominees of In the midst of all the new friends , how sweet it is to find the old ones she is doing . I am sorry to hear that Alice Joyce has been ill , and we must May Boylan , Caitlin Ni Thighearnain , and Edie Ni Th business sense , and as I find a still further and very welcome increase in this well . Ells Barrett sends a sweet letter as usual . She draws for all of us who May McGlynn , of Kiltimagh , come voluntarily to join our ranks . Lead mile extend from week to week the circle of dear friends who surround me in our are joined with her under Blessed Gabriel's patronage , and I know her prayers Proinsias were not at hand to administer now and then an antidote . Mollie Edward Malone , and enquires if , by getting a fifth member next month , she every happiness , and will miss their essays very much , ' and Philip J. Cauldwell tailte romhaibh go heir : I look forward to true friendship and strong support their mutual intercourse and the graces to be obtained through our beloved arrangement . My old friend Mary Rennie , already a badge-holder , brings still staunch and true . ' Lilian Nally comes as ever with words of cheer , and Ivin. namely . Sarah Vaughan , Kitty Doyle , Katie Doyle and her brother , members helping to spread the knowledge of the Guild , and so fostering the Patron , will bring a blessing on their own homes and have a powerful effect little J. Cauldwell , sends the names of Kathleen Balke and Katie Spooner Lizzie Malone sends names and endoses letters of four friends who wish to here applying for admission . Their names are will become entitled to a badge . ' Certainly , Lizzie , I see no objection to this Sheridan , Clare Sheridan , Maureen Dwyer , Angela Toner , Monica Kierans , Guild , and to realise that their influence for good helped and strengthened by of thanks and acknowledgment from Ada O'Neill , Marie Antoinette Dunne , thoroughly and do each correspondent justice without overstending the bounds no less than twenty-five new members write from Aches Kellv. ' Letia' Savage , Sarah Halpin , Eileen Halpin Norak C. McQuillan , Nairin and Mebil O'Conch My Post Bag . are very acceptable to God . Many other letters I have received from which Lena Bowden . Kitty Mathews , Eileen McLeer . Anna M. Carlton , on the future lives of their associates . And it is gratifying to find so man enrolment , while John Cullen , of Carlow , Nora Lynch , of Howth , ' and Marie Rheby . all of whom send interesting letters . And Aime N The spirit of emulation has evidently seized the cailini of Drosheda . for was so heard that it had to be tackled in a businesslike fashion to sort it of them I am delighted to extend a welcome . Our junior prize-winner of his month . Vellie Dempsey . Maisie O'Beirne , Eileen Branigan , each individual effort as I should wish . ' It is to me an unspeakable for to Jennie McAuter . Josie McGrath , Kate Mulholland , Gertrude most welcome : ' I thank her with all my heart ' for it and " for the good work from the boys and girls who have gathered round me in such numbers this the Guild does not find members to write every month . ' Andther badge-holders last month who is " too busy " to write ever month . I am glad to welcome Cross " is doing . Lilian says she is afraid I spoil her : I think it is the outlined by our kind Editor . ' And yet , are can't sacrifice everything to the ast , James Henry , Kathleen Flanagan , Maud Bowes , an utter , and that you ask your hard-worked little friend to write when she are very acceptable to God . Many other sisters I have received her projects Guild brought to his notice by Josephine Dunne , who only joined last month . ork . May Blessed Gabriel assist and reward their endeave sias Mac Tighearnain also greets me , indulging . I fear , it from the boys and girl's who have gathered round me in such that she may before long be completely recovered . Julia actical work which I appreciate , Julia ; many thanks . I have nice letters scorrespondence I take the opportunity of " exhorting my May McGlynn , of Kilimagh , come voluntarily to join our ranks . Lead mile math's correspondence I take the opportunity of ' exhorting my children to I that you ask your hard-worked little friend to write we t to his notice by Josephine Dunne , who only joined last n --- Page 17 --- the cross . of rich grass land sloping down on either side to a little stream that winds bright pebles , bubbling with a music as sweet and wild as that of the dark ; quiet sheltered spot with bright patches of flowers shining among the ferns now it sleeps , half hidden beneath the hawthorns and wild roses with which over the surface of the stream in places . Everything breathes the spirit of Standing up amid the golden corn . or dead , hopes disappointed even in their accomplishment , fruitless regrets , impossible wishes , and overwhelming doubt and fear . They who have ex- Others . their blue eyes with tears o'erflowing , perienced those feelings will understand why even reading ( that grand another should be gardens for each month of the year . in which things of beauty might thoughts and sentiments , and invested with a power of their own . The cross May , while June is known by its roses of pink , ' white and red . ' In July Glorious though it be , of her blue hours , Now a few yards further and I reach such a easy resting-place . It is a signifies gladness . while the nasturtium displays patriotism . Flowers , too . cool afternoon and turn for relief to my favourite happy-the story or rowers . house where the sunshine always enters and where the breeze waits in the he banks are so profoundly fringed . Lilies and other water plants almost complete or more beautiful solitude . These meadows consist of a double row It has been said that life in a city can never be compared to life in a ut of the world . Robinson Crusos in his , lonely island had scarcely a more That laugh to the summer's day . But is hidden in her tender leaning Spring's real story dwells not in the meaning , daisy blossoms' forth in September . By some wild skylark's mating song : Each man my sleep was broken through he beauty of such flower-beds in summer ; of the mass of confused colouring Everwhere about us are they glowing . mollie Joyce . few birds sing this month ( July ) , yet their song never wholly ceases all the drops generally appear early in January . while crosses-yellow and that will not depart images which are many and various loved ones changed and other green vegetation like groups of stars . Time would fail to tell of As they floated in light away sent of things growing without . A great writer also says that though very Across this field , now over the gate , and here I am into the meadows and is the orange-lily and also dahlias , marigolds , nasturtums In the language of flowers we learn that they are chosen as emblems of high gets brighter as the season " goes on . " But many people say that there voify virtues : the primrose simplicity , the violet humility , and the rose Some like stars , to tell us summer is born . ear round , and it is Tennyson . I think who makes someone say : charity . peace-a peace which sinks into my very soul . Tulips , narcissus . blue and white crowdout , hvacinth and foxgl ' There a lovely thought to mark the hours depression , when one is weary of one's very thoughts , haunted by images By the opening and the shutting . flowers To the summer's richer wealth of flowers . morning and closing at night . ' There is a poem called . ' The Dial of Reliable authorities assert that flowers have regular hours for opening in be then seen . rpleshow themselves in February , and in March we have titles , daffodits great quantity of violets . April brings a profusion of primulas , but- between them . This tiny will was never more tricky-now it darts over the s ) fails to comfort me to day . I will go out into the air this pleasant , purple show . Flowers ' quantity of violets . April brings a profusion of pr Snowdrops . Flowers " :